Romania startup ecosystem
Romania offers one of Europe's largest pools of software engineering talent, with Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca emerging as vibrant tech hubs. Lower operating costs, a young and digitally fluent population, and improving access to capital make it an attractive base for product development and increasingly for founding new ventures. The directory currently lists 54 organisations across 6 cities.
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.lumen
Deep-tech firm building AI-powered smart glasses that replicate guide-dog function for the visually impaired, using pedestrian autonomous-driving perception and haptic head-steering. Tested with 300+ blind users across ~30 countries.
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AI Expo Europe 2026
Eastern Europe's largest AI conference at Radisson Blu Bucharest with 100+ speakers, 59+ international exhibitors, and 81+ workshops; covers AI applications across education, healthcare, legal, urbanism, art, and the future of work.
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Aino Corry
Technical retrospectives and patterns expert, author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns," who teaches teams how to run effective retrospectives and apply software patterns. She is an announced speaker at Codecamp Cluj-Napoca 2026.
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Alin Simion
Senior Cloud Engineer at CrowdStrike specialising in scalable cloud infrastructure and security engineering. He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026, where he addresses developers and architects on cloud systems.
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Bitdefender
Bitdefender is a Bucharest-founded global cybersecurity company providing advanced threat prevention, detection, and response solutions for consumers, enterprises, and managed service providers. Founded in 2001 by Florin Talpes, the company has grown into one of the world's leading cybersecurity vendors, protecting over 500 million systems across 170+ countries with technologies spanning endpoint protection, network security, cloud workload security, and extended detection and response (XDR). Bitdefender's threat research labs are among the most respected in the industry, and the company licenses its detection technology to numerous other security vendors. With over 1,800 employees, Bitdefender is Romania's largest and most globally recognized technology company.
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Blackshell
Cybersecurity platform for SMEs offering Stingray (compliance-focused corporate VPN) and Bluefin (threat detection and vulnerability management), targeting ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIS 2 compliance. Raised about EUR 3M.
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CEE Fintech Week Bucharest 2026
A week-long fintech, blockchain, and AI gathering across multiple Bucharest venues, positioned as a Central and Eastern Europe fintech hub event with an awards gala. Useful for fintech founders targeting the CEE market and regional investors.
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Christian Horsdal
Independent consultant and author of "Microservices in .NET," focused on distributed systems and microservice architecture. He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026, covering microservices and .NET.
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Cluj Innovation Days 2026
The 14th edition, themed on skills in the AI era, bringing together leaders from education, technology, policy, and business. Strong for founders building in edtech, AI, and the future of work within Romania's biggest regional tech hub.
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Codecamp
Romanian organiser of the Codecamp conference series, running developer-focused conferences and masterclasses since 2008 across multiple cities including Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iași and Timișoara. Programmes cover software development, software architecture, artificial intelligence and engineering leadership for the local IT community.
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Codecamp Cluj-Napoca (October 2026)
Regional Cluj-Napoca edition of the Codecamp conference series, running since 2008, held at the Grand Hotel Italia. A one-day main conference of software-development talks on October 20 is followed by two days of hands-on masterclasses on software architecture and AI, aimed at the local IT community of developers, architects and engineering leads.
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Codecamp Iași (October 2026)
Regional Iași edition of the Codecamp conference series, with two days of intensive software-architecture and AI masterclasses on October 27-28 followed by a full conference day of developer-focused talks across multiple stages on October 29. It serves the local tech community of developers, architects and data scientists at the Agora Center in Iași.
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Dan Lupu
Venture Partner at Earlybird focused on Central and Eastern Europe. He co-built the Earlybird Digital East franchise (now Bek Ventures) that produced the UiPath and Trendyol outcomes, and continues to bridge Earlybird with the CEE founder ecosystem.
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DefCamp 2026
DefCamp is the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, with hands-on workshops running November 16-18. The 16th edition features world-class keynotes, live hacking competitions in the Hacking Village, and expert panels on AI threats, supply-chain security, and cloud security. It unites security researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts from across the region for networking and knowledge-sharing.
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DesignVerse
Bucharest-based AI platform that provides a context layer for enterprise software development, generating production-ready applications aligned to a company's existing design systems, architecture standards, and internal documentation. Upgraded EUROCONTROL's legacy software in six weeks instead of six months. Raised $5.5M seed from Begin Capital and Gapminder VC.
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DevDays
Organiser of DevDays, an 'Unstacked Engineering' software conference held in Iași, Romania. The team grew out of the long-running dotnetdays.ro conference and now runs a broader event focused on the real-world practice of modern, polyglot and distributed software engineering, spanning architecture, AI, cloud and DevOps.
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DevDays Iași (September 2026)
DevDays (subtitled 'Unstacked Engineering Conference') is a Romanian software-engineering conference held at the Agora event center in Iași. Evolved from the long-running dotnetdays.ro conference, the 2026 edition runs pre-conference workshops on September 21-22 and a main conference day on September 23, with tracks spanning software development, architecture, AI, cloud infrastructure, DevOps and security.
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DevTalks Cluj-Napoca 2026
The 9th Cluj edition at Cluj Innovation Park, expecting 2,500+ developers and 50+ speakers across three stages. A developer-heavy ecosystem and hiring venue in Transylvania's tech capital.
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DevTalks Romania 2026
The largest tech conference in Central & Eastern Europe at Romexpo Pavilion B1, with 14 stages on AI, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, quantum, and dev leadership; 100,000+ developers, tech leaders, and IT decision-makers.
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Druid AI
Druid AI is a Bucharest-born conversational AI company building enterprise-grade virtual employees that combine intent-based dialogue, knowledge grounding, and deep integration into business systems of record such as SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and UiPath. The platform is aimed at large organizations that want to stand up internal and external chat- and voice-based assistants without stitching together LLM wrappers, retrieval plumbing, and orchestration logic from scratch, and it competes in the same category as Kore.ai and Cognigy from a Romanian R&D base. Druid has raised over USD 50 million in growth capital led by TCV and is one of the clearest examples of a second-generation Romanian enterprise software company riding the UiPath-trained talent pool into the agentic-AI era. It also illustrates how Bucharest's RPA heritage flows naturally into conversational and agentic automation.
